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I see. I don't own any of the revivals, just the original versions, so my information is obselete. Personally, hard points to me is just there as an option. we can certainly choose to ignore it, and if we want a "custom" so to speak, the option is there for a non conventional loadout.

If they ever get around to making the super packs, the hardpoints will also work as a ready-made attachment point for them under the wings. Which.. boy I'll be really curious if Bandai even bothers with those, or whether they function at all. All of the packs in Macross7 were pretty janky in their implementation (except for the VF-11, which came from Plus).

I disagree, the revival added the hard points and dropped the wings without them and made the wings permanently attached (which is a huge improvement). I suspect the 17 will have permanently attached wings and they will have hard points. While it may not have been canon to have weapons on the wings, it's more fun to have the hard points and give us options so I hope they're on there. That particular sin feels like a feature, not a bug, while everything else is bugs.

Anealing is what I do when I'm afinding parts that I adropped on the floor.

The 171s' wings did not come with hardpoints by default on the original releases, the hardpoint versions came with the FP sets. If the 17 is a non FP release, I believe they will have no hard points.

Thanks. I wasn't able to go last year, but I went the year before and I hung out and had pizza with a guy I know who is responsible for brokering the deal between Big West and the villainous Harmony Gold after catching HG lying in a court trial. (They were using Valkyrie designs from DYRL and claiming that they were from TOS and since the info on the case was available online, he caught their subterfuge!) He now works for Big West and we're now finally getting Macross internationally. I swear, if HG spent more effort on making anime fans happy than going after people with their stupid lawsuits, maybe we'd begin to respect them.

I decided to try to crack off a pair of the Gerwalk shoulders. It's a little bit more than just a peg holding on there. One had very little glue and I was able to work it off then trim the nub with sprue clippers and polish down. The other was kind of a mess. There's a little bit of a dent.

Exciting stuff. Have fun.

That's terrific Greg! Thanks for letting us know. Now I won't have to searching in hopes of finding pics of those figures!

Awesome news! Looking forward to seeing your picks

I'm planning to attend the All-Japan Model Hobby Show on the 17th. I'll take pictures and video of the event and share pics here of the new stuff. I hope to get closeup pictures of their VT-01 figures of Hikaru, Minmay, and Misa.

I don't mind if the DX VF-17S lacks the gunpod internal storage/ejection gimmick. I just want the toy to: Be slightly beefier in Battroid mode, especially the lower legs. Have all the correct panel lines according to the VF-17 lineart. At the moment, the legs, backplate and shoulders are completely wrong detailwise. Resculpt the head to get of that raised cowling at the top of the head. Get rid of the hardpoints on the wings. Adjust the crotch peice in batroid mode so that it points down instead of being angled forward.

Not entirely sure what you mean by "clone strains" there. Macross Chronicle's WorldGuide sheet for the Zentradi describes there as being essentially three main types: Ordinary soldier type (e.g. Warera, Roli, Conda, Milia) Records/Staff officer type (e.g. Exsedol, Tranquil) Commander type (e.g. Vrlitwhai, Quamzin, Laplamiz, Boddole Zer) We do see Commanders occasionally take to the field with their troops. Quamzin's the poster boy for that. He's a Commander type and his men are ordinary soldier types. Macross Chronicle's Character Sheet "Zentradi Soldiers" (SDFM TV Zentradi 08A) has a note on the line art of the various Zentradi background characters used in the Super Dimension Fortress Macross TV series that explains why they all look different. The Zentradi are all clones, but they're cloned from a large number of different genetic patterns so each force has considerable diversity of attributes among its soldiers. (Presumably this is more advantageous than just cloning the same guy a billion times the way the Republic did in Star Wars.)

Well, I was a glorified logistics troop when i was in, so . . . . probably a smear mark on a wall somewhere, as extras do not seem to last long in this series.

Good looking railings and stairs @derex3592! That is one of the things that makes me hesitant to do my 1/700 and /350 ships.

Do the Zentraedi mix different clone strains together in the same unit when it comes to foot soldiers or are there Zentraedi units with only one clone type for foot soldiers?

Well, if they decide to retool the legs of the VF-17S, I don't think it can do the gun pod ejection gimmick properly since Yamato had to split the gunpod in half and store it in the backs of the legs.

oh man! those pre-order missiles🔥

Great job! Looks good. Did you anneal the photo etch before folding? I've found that makes things much easier, as it removes the spring-y-ness. Of course annealing doesn't help much when you drop a piece.

It is that railing; "PE" or photo-etch is thin brass that has been chemically etched to achieve finely detailed parts that would be too small, weak or incapable of such detail in plastic alone. This is a video on how it can be done at home; this is just to show the process. The kit-makers have better machinery and tools for it-

I don’t know what PE is but I’m assuming it’s that beautiful railing you have going on there. This looks awesome!